A sourcing agent misclassified one of us by 3,300 miles. Today, we are building the runtime trust layer to stop agents making these mistakes at industrial scale.
CEO
Strajo came from Montenegro to study Offensive Cyber at the US Naval Academy, before research stints at NASA, the NSA, Microsoft and Vectra. Was at MIT researching Adversarial Intelligence; selected as MIT's RSAC Scholar.
COO
Former AI-focused VC at Creator Fund, leading Applied AI and cyber investments across Europe. Adam built production LLM agents for deal sourcing and portfolio ops, which is when he saw the failure modes Refractal now exists to solve.
AI Research Engineer
PhD researcher in AI at the University of Copenhagen and visiting researcher at ETH Zurich. Builds the science of evaluating intelligent systems, with a focus on generalisable and efficient evaluation. Prior to academia, Ruchira shipped production-grade AI in industry and built test suites for real world model deployments.
Managing Director · Accenture
Leads Accenture’s global Microsoft Security business, scaling MxDR and SecOps modernization across Defender, Sentinel, and Security Copilot for enterprise clients. CISSP & CCSP; deep operator background across identity, cloud, and managed detection.
CISO · US Military Academy
CISO at the United States Military Academy at West Point and Assistant Professor, with a PhD in cybersecurity. Focuses on adversary behavior, detection engineering, and AI security, with a background in secure communications and enterprise systems.
Sr. Security Lead · Microsoft
Senior Security Lead at Microsoft, partnering with US Government and DoD customers across identity, cloud, and SecOps. US Naval Academy graduate; founder of Operation MOS, an AI-powered resume builder for transitioning veterans.
Google Cloud Global Architect
Google Cloud Global Architect at Google, helping enterprises roll out Workspace with the right identity, device, and data controls. SANS Technology Institute graduate carrying GIAC certifications across incident handling, security essentials, and foundational cyber.
Harvard LLM - AI Policy and Privacy Expert
COO of SafePorter and an AI governance expert advising startups and organizations on responsible AI strategy, agentic systems, data protection, and technology regulation. A Harvard Law School graduate, she helps teams design AI systems that are compliant, commercially viable, and human-centered. Co-author of The AI Act Compact and co-host of RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation.
Harvard LLM - EU Cyber, AI & Privacy Law
Doctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen and graduate of Harvard Law School, specializing in EU cybersecurity, AI, privacy, and biotechnology law.
VectraAI · Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist at Vectra AI with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (2022) focused on machine-learning models for cybersecurity engineering. Her current research centers on AI agentic cybersecurity engineering for the network security ecosystem (AI red teaming).
Adam was an investor at Creator Fund, backing early-stage Applied AI and cyber founders across Europe. Alongside the day job he was building his own LLM agents for sourcing founders and scaling his own work. He spent more time patching the agents’ mistakes than using their output.
Strajo was on the other side of the Atlantic. After coming from Montenegro to study Offensive Cyber at the US Naval Academy, he joined MIT to research Adversarial Intelligence. He spent time in research across Microsoft, NASA, NSA, and Vectra, where he wrote a paper using Claude for adversarial red-teaming.
Adam’s sourcing agent detected Strajo’s paper and flagged him as a potential founder, in Cambridge, UK. Except he was in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Adam only spotted the mistake when manually reviewing the Excel output. We started Refractal to stop these subtle failures that happen today on an industrial scale.
What the sourcing agent returned. Confidently. With a Zoom invite.
Where Strajo actually was. 3,314 miles off. No policy check stopped it.
Refractal operates from London, a city that has been regulating risk for three centuries.
